To Robert Roger McEwan

 

Text copyright © 2004 by Jamie McEwan

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Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McEwan, James.

Willy the scrub / by Jamie McEwan.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-58196-010-5

Summary: Willy and his friends have just started 5th grade and they want to be part of the “in” crowd, the jocks. The fall football season leaves Willy a benchwarmer, or scrub, but he goes out for wrestling in the winter and things begin to change.

1. Middle school students—Juvenile fiction. 2. Athletes—Juvenile fiction. 3. Wrestling—Juvenile fiction. 4. Sportsmanship—Juvenile fiction. [1. Middle school students—Fiction. 2. Athletes—Fiction. 3. Wrestling—Fiction. 4. Winning and losing—Fiction. 5. Sportsmanship—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.M478463 Wi 2004

[Fic] dc22

OCLC: 52632857

Manufactured in the United States of America

7/1/11

eISBN: 978-0-7613-8595-0 (pdf)

eISBN: 978-1-4677-3139-3 (ePub)

eISBN: 978-1-4677-3140-9 (mobi)